command-line install

[hammeraxe]

i have two quick questions:
1)how come the ubuntu command-line install takes up no more no less than 900MB !?
2)is there a command line tool for monitoring disk usage e.g. showing how much free space there is on each device?

thanks in advance

[geirha]

1) command-line install?
2) df -h will list the usage of all mounted filesystems, and the du command can be used to see how much space is used inside directories. Read its man-page.

sudo du --max-depth=1 -h -x /

[hammeraxe]

1) apparently i didnt make myself clear. i installed ubuntu from the alternate cd with the option to install command-line only. it seems weird that it takes up so much space
2)thanks

[bodhi.zazen]

If you want a smaller, minimal system use the Ubuntu minimal CD, JEOS, or debootstrap

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...tion/MinimalCD

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOS
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whati...eredition/jeos


Or

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot

[geirha]

Ah, I haven't tried the alternate CD. Didn't know there was a command-line only option. 900MB does sounds a bit large ...

The following should list the installed size (%I) and package name (%p) of all installed packages (~i)

aptitude -F '%I %p' search '~i'

Append | grep MB to that command to only list packages that take more than 10MB.

[hammeraxe]

hmmm... i tried the mini.iso and installed command line only. yet the system still takes up 563MB after upgrading and localepurging.
well its better than 900MB but still seems quite a lot